11953/Temple Infiltration

Temple Infiltration
Date of Scene:	10 July 2022
Location:	Bane's Office
Synopsis:	catwoman steals some info and phoebe narrowly escapes Bane.
Cast of Characters:	Bane, Phoebe Beacon, Selina Kyle

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Bane has posed:
In the temple of violence the plans are being made. Tezcatlipoca has made the objective clear. He wishes to regain physical form in the world of the living. Bane must achive this he has no choice in the matter now. So plans are being made and put into motion.

In his office Bane is finalizing plans to gather the needed sacrifices. To round up enough people as quietly as possible to sacrifce them on mass to gather enough blood to give the god life and physical form. "Target the 'left dead' homeless vagrants marginalized peoples that the law wont sink resources into finding. Criminals, Gotham has a lot of criminals to snatch. No one will miss them. Not even the Bat. Though I would thoroughly enjoy a chance to assert my dominance over him." Bane says thinking out loud. He's alone in the building. Well mostly alone there is always some eyes on Bane even if no one can see them.

Bane gets up and leaves the office to take a break. Things weigh heavy on his mind and conscience. His mind works overtime trying to think of an escape plan for this.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Tezcatlipoca should have been a bigger deal than what Balm had left it when she disappeared a month and a half ago, but she knew people had priorities -- hers, now, was coming to be Gotham.

    She was passing familiar with always having the Eyes of someone else on you. She was wearing black arm wraps, a sleeveless black top with a hood and her blue-lensed domino mask and dark gray pants with knee-length, tie-up boots. She has red gloves on her hands, and blackpack on, and she begins to decend, from the roof, to a window, looking to see if there were any triggers for a security system that appeared active, taking her time to take in the lay out.

Selina Kyle has posed:
    A cat with sharp hearing picks up all kinds of interesting news on the street. Catwoman spends more time listening than burgling lately--bad season for snatch and grabs. The summer heat raises tempers in a foul way. The bruises on her forearms and shins prove that. It has been easier for her to part fools from their info.
    Enough info entices her to the fight club in Gotham. She wears her usual blacks and goggles pulled down. They are attuned to infrared as she scales a nearby building. She pauses on a window embrasure and checks for motion. This is the place and finding she is not alone keeps her slowed. Could be anyone here. She goes still and watches Phoebe in dark clothes head down.

Bane has posed:
The Temple has verybasic security systems off the shelf stuff anyone can buy. Experts in breaking in and sneaking past security systems should have little trouble getting in seemingly unnoticed. Bane's men arent at their posts tonight. It would seem to all but the most observant and skilled that there was no one home except for the big man himself.

Bane still unaware is pacing the around the temple. This plan is not what he would choose to do. He knows what Tezactlpoca's aims are and its bad business for Bane but he's shackled to this being forced to serve and please the God. As if the old god held Bane's very heart in its cold dead grasp.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    The young lady in the dark get up manages to disengage one of the window alarms, and uses it to get in.

    She's loathe to use magic yet -- in fear that she would be recognized by the god whose temple the bloodsport feeds from her last incursion here, and she withdraws to the side. He rheart is pounding in her chest, but she doesn't make a sound. She gets her bearrings inside the building, and then she begins to slowly make her way around the empty arena, staying to the shadows as she goes, heading in the direction of the offices.

    She had not given any indication to have seen Selina -- it's a good possibility that the baby batling hasn't.

Selina Kyle has posed:
    Cover of darkness only goes so far. Catwoman feels the steady wall under her and climbs a little lower. A soft pop sends one of her lines firing across the distance where it latches and roots.
    She zips across to the open window. Phoebe leaves an opening. She will take it as a gift. Not quite willing to trust it is clear, she looks inside. Overlays give her augmented sight a chance to notice any warm bodies or movement past human vision. Maybe any beams and signatures of more advanced systems. Finding none gives confidence to continue. The line recoils back into a mechanism in her suit. It's reloaded for next time she needs to descend from a ceiling. The building beckons. She hunts for a different path way to the imaginary x of a treasure-map.

Bane has posed:
The closer Phoebe would get to the office where Bane keeps the artifacts related to Tezactlipoca the more the atmosphere would feel heavier. And the creeping sense for being followed. Like being hunted by a large predator in the wilderness. There is nothing there but the magic in the area make this area deeply unsettling.

Selina should notice that security feels strangely lacking for the hide out of a crimelord. Bane still has not been alerted to either inflitrator Though the eyes on Bane have taken notice but they will not move to act with out an order. Bane is in the ring of the temple. Missing the simple joy of combat of proving his dominance The one driving desire in Bane's life proving himself and bringing down those who would stand above him. Bane is not paying much attention but the objective for both intruders lies behind him they must get by him unseen or risk Bane's wrath.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Phoebe breathes out. She closes her eyes, and she brings her right hand over her left, where beneath a leather strap her white ink tattoo is. She can be sensed, certainly, but the sight of the jaguar of night may be just a little harrangued by the tattoo hiding her magic.

    She opens her eyes again, and she purses her lips, eyeballing the arena where Bane is walking, and she remains to the side, down, out of sight, a shadow.

    At least, she hopes she does. She begins the perilous journey towards the office, going slowly, moving when Bane's back is to her.

Selina Kyle has posed:
    Any robbery in progress is unsettling and Catwoman is not immune to the god's fear. The sour taste in her mouth becomes an unpleasant traveling companion. She moves in a light tread diagonally across the hallway, stopping to pause by a door to listen for activity. Lack of sounds invite her to carry on.
    The gloom overhead provides another route and she takes a quick jog to build up speed. She free runs to the wall and springs up to grab a ceiling beam. Once she is up there, she treads along quicker in search of the same thing the baby bat wants. That office.
    Though anything enticing along the way to grab is also fair game.

Bane has posed:
in the Office, in the display case, The obsidian mirror begins to emit smoke. Bane is not yet aware of intruders but The Old god is very much aware that unknowns have been making their way closer to his mirror and his heart.

Bane suddenly turn to face the office, he can feel the mirror is smoking. it turns his stomach and sinks his chest. "I must find away out of this" he mutters to himself. What had started with a quest to make himself a god, has ended with forced servitude. Bane moves to the door of the cage.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    The hair on the back of Phoebe's neck stands up. The young mage slips again into a shadow, steeling her resolve. She stretches her fingers a moment, feeling the leather of her gloves quake and creak as she feels that unpleasant feeling of being hunted key up to a nine out of eleven.

    She bites her lower lip, and as Bane turns to look to the office she almost bolts, back to the window, try again another day.

    But she's so close -- and when Bane moves to the door of the cage, she draws in, quickly and low towards the stairs, breath rattling in her ears as she draws up one of her slender throwing spikes, turns, and lobs it quickly towards an 'AWAY' part of the arena, trying to get into the balcony overseeing the arena, as if it was something up there that was making all the noise!

Selina Kyle has posed:
    Catwoman is more comfortable on beams and catwalks than the ground. She finds comfort in stalking carefully in the gloom up there. When required she gets on her stomach to slide along as to make it harder to see her.
    Something very much can see her and she can't see it. Bad choices. Too hard to take it easy. She slides along and halts. Whatever Phoebe threw makes a decent clank but maybe it's not enough.
    Another contribution comes from a somewhat different direction than the thrown object. She pulls a small grey cannister filled with smoke, more a diversion than a real irritant. Twisting the key gives a couple seconds for it to really start steaming. The cat tips her arm back and flings it into the arena stage, another cause for Bane or his lackeys to look that way. After that it's time to move at greater speeds and cut her way into the office cage.
    Batman's going to yell at her, surely.

Bane has posed:
The sudden commotion Makes Bane open the cage door and get out of the ring. Smoke goes off. He utters something in arabic as he goes to investigate the noise and smoke. "We are not alone" Bane says clearly in arabic. now there is the slightest inclings of movement in the shadows of the unlit temple. "Coming into Bane's temple after hours is a foolish errand. Whomever you may be, I have this one warning and advice. Escape now if you can, or survive if I let you"

if you are close enough you may hear an voice in Bane's ear. The area of the noise has been 'cleared' and Bane is now sweeping the arena personally to find the sneak.

If the Cat has entered the office She will see the Opal heart of Tezcatlipoca, the smoking mirror and the nauhal gems arranged in the case. and on the Desk maps and plans to do mass kidnappings and records of acquiring ritual objects.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Phoebe wasn't quite close enough to hear the clear, but was close enough to hear the Arabic.

    Phoebe sees the movement in her domino, and then also sees Catwoman, stealing towards the office.

    There is a momentary prayer that goes through Phoebe's mind, at that moment, which amounted to 'please don't let me screw this up' -- and she reached into her pack and pulled her own flashbangs.

    Any sort of connection to the Batcomputer would read 'light 'em up' as a warning, in text, and then she pulls the pin, counts to two, and throws the flashbang as hard as she can up into the balcony. The second to the back of the arena, and then she books it towards the office space.

    Unless Bane gets to her first.

    ... in which case, she better hope her healing powers are back to strength.

Selina Kyle has posed:
    Catwoman will brave the office long enough to get a good look. Something's up. Worth knowing about, and that means risking one of her nine lives to get there. She flicks on the climbing claws on her gloves as a precaution when dropping down.
    She has little time to case the place. Her face is mostly dark under the goggles and face mask. The mirrored surface of the lenses catch whatever smoke and a hint of the gems. Trust her to know her jewels. A quick skim of papers from afar is about as close as she braves.
    That bad feeling becomes that much worse. It kicks up a degree when she hears something go off loud behind and away from her. Too bad. No time to swipe the paper leaves her running a line to take the high road.
    The ceiling route that is. Virtuous routes are for bat kids.

Bane has posed:
Bane knows what flashbangs are a veteran of many military conflicts he's not distracted by the bang but instinctively starts looking for the source. Grenades are thrown froma distance so the location of the bang is not where you should look. Phoebe has made a mistake. When you are hiding never take a shot from the same spot twice. Bane doesnt see her yet but is now moving in her general direction.

If Selina would blink the darkness behind her eyelids would reveal the visage of an angry Black Jaguar leaping towards her. I'ts merely a vision in the darkness though.

both phoebe and Selina would start to hear whispers like a distant wind. The whispers are in nauhatl but then they suddenly change to english "run away"

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Bane didn't see her yet, but she's not goign to have a lot of time. She curses, quietly, drawing backwards and retracing her steps, vision set on Bane.

    The litany of words spilling from her brain doesn't match her silence. She breathes out in a soft huff, and then she turns, and RUNS. This once, it seemed like a good idea. She wasn't going to get any more intel today. Will she be running into combat? Into the quiet guards that had cleared the areas before?

    She needed to get out the window to escape. She wasn't poised to take on an ancient god -- or his favored champion -- tonight!

Selina Kyle has posed:
    No telling Selina twice. She is happy to leave now with the image of the cat prowling after her. The jaguar god making threats gets her to curl her lips back in a corresponding silent snarl.
    A long bath and a lot of liquor might be necessary later to get the smell and the thoughts out. But more immediate concerns tonight. Fleeing. Phoebe runs and she foregoes stealth for racing across the beams for the sure window out. It's open and provides an escape. Another she spotted on the way in will make a backup if the angry landlord decides to evict them. Bane isn't worth fighting hand to hand. Save that for someone else.
    The clawed gloves are a good deterrent for defending herself but she'd rather not rely on them. The burglar is headed for cover elsewhere.

Bane has posed:
Selina would narrowly escape with out assassin intervention. But Phoebe's mad dash for the exit gets Bane to charge after her. But once Phoebe clears out of the building Bane stops his approach. Before she gets out of ear shot Bane would yell "TELL THE BAT TO COME HIMSELF NEXT TIME THE DOOR IS OPEN"

Bane then turns back to look inside his temple. "was anything taken?" Bane says in arabic. "no someone got into the office but nothing of value is gone." the response from one of the assassins inside. Bane gets on walkie talkie and alerts his men to report back to the temple. It's time to prepare.